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Cultured cashew butter- what a discovery! It tastes delicious, tangy, salty and just plain delicious. I have been making raw vegan nut cheeses for ages, but I never thought to actually make it taste more buttery until recently because Ariana loves to spread on her occasional breakfast toast and I’m not a big fan of vegetable spreads.they contain too many unnecessary ingredients.
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Fall is here and so is Halloween… the time for scary and (pretty disgusting) looking treats and endless baking afternoons to make enough for the neighborhood kids trick and treating affairs!
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Breakfast today was this quick and easy winter spiced apple porridge. There is something very comforting about porridge and in cold crispy bright mornings we really enjoy having porridge for breakfast. This particular winter spiced apple porridge is easy, the spices we use are always available in our cupboard and we all like it, including the kids.
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This is my favorite vegan sugar cookies recipe- it super easy and effective for a quick healthy sugar fix. My kids love to make them because its a bit like playing with playdough- you roll the dough out and cut shapes with the cutters so its a great family activity and make great presents.
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On Friday afternoons, a group of local parents get together to let the children play and for us all to unwind as a community. For these events, when they are hosted in a private residence instead of the upstairs room at the local pub, I like to bring some healthy treats for the parents and the kids. For the first ever one we had, I made these quick and yummy bounty style coconut treats with Ariana’s help. They were all gone rather quickly and a few mums asked me to share the recipe with them as they were popular with the other kids, so here we are.
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In the last few months, since Ariana started to want to decorate our cakes, cupcakes and cookies with colours, I have been trying to find a brand that I could trust and had no dubious ingredients. I am not sure you are aware, but the commercial brands out there are full of not very nice (to not say nasty) ingredients,
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A couple of days ago, I passed by this wonderful wall close to Paddington Station and spotted this beautiful living wall. That little stretch on the side of the Canal is full of street art and inspiring views and architecture. I love walking by the Canal, checking out the little boats (one of which is actually home to a dear friend of mine!), seeing the swans swim by and people strolling around enjoying the walk. It always feels like a little break from the city.
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To make temperature stable decoration for our vegan cookies and cakes, we usually make a vegan aquafaba royal icing. It is super quick and easy to make and it works very much like regular royal icing.
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My mum is an excellent cook. She has pretty much, ‘veganised’ all her family cooking repertoire to adapt to our eating ways…
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In the last couple of years, particularly, since the kids came along, I have come to realize the importance of friendship. And I don’t mean the ‘easy kind of like friendship’ we nowadays have with other parents kids at pick up, or with neighbors, I mean the true, hardcore, ‘I am always for you here’ kind of friendship. Those are not easy to come by…
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